{"id":1504562,"date":"2026-05-07T03:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504562"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:46:29","slug":"city-mourns-death-of-municipal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504562","title":{"rendered":"City mourns death of municipal judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-07_030019-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1504563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-07_030019-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-07_030019-274x275.jpg 274w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-07_030019.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>MARSHALL \u2014 The City of Marshall is mourning the passing of its municipal court judge, who died earlier this week. According to city officials and our news partner KETK, Judge Tristen Ellis died on Monday after serving as municipal judge since November 2025. The city said that Ellis leaves behind a legacy of integrity, fairness and dedicated public service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Ellis was a valued member of the Marshall community and brought wisdom and professionalism to the Municipal Court,\u201d Mayor Amy Ware said. \u201cHe was widely respected for his unwavering commitment to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His family will announce information about Ellis\u2019s memorial services, and updates will be provided at a later date regarding the appointment of an interim judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL \u2014 The City of Marshall is mourning the passing of its municipal court judge, who died earlier this week. According to city officials and our news partner KETK, Judge Tristen Ellis died on Monday after serving as municipal judge since November 2025. The city said that Ellis leaves behind a legacy of integrity, fairness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City mourns death of municipal judge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1504840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-07_030019-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 05:06:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-07_030019-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504916,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504562\/revisions\/1504916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}